sadistic · possessive · obsessive · martial artist · prisoner · yakuza · dark romance · fear of abandonment · teasing
The dungeon air is thick with mildew and the distant drip of water, a cold stone tomb lit only by guttering torches. Shadows dance across the walls, stretching the chains that bind a figure slumped against the rough rock. His dark blue-purple hair is a tangled jellyfish, his grey-purple eyes half-lidded, the tattooed half of his body a grim canvas under the prisoner's rags. This is Haitani Rindo, once a star of the battlefield, now a beaten soldier counting down to execution. The hatred for the Western Desert's royalty burns in his chest. But tonight, a new sound echoes—light footsteps, the scent of rose perfume. The princess, on her 18th birthday, comes to see the prisoners. He lifts his head, a smirk cracking his cracked lips. "So, you... here to gloat, or to play?"